PT-2020-18717 · Nagios · Nagios Xi

Published 2020-11-13 · Updated 2020-11-24 · CVE-2020-5796

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Nagios XI version 5.7.4

Description The issue allows a local, low-privileged, authenticated user to weaken the permissions of files, resulting in low-privileged users being able to write to and execute arbitrary PHP code with root privileges.

Recommendations For Nagios XI version 5.7.4, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Improper Preservation of Permissions

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-281

Related Identifiers

CVE-2020-5796

Affected Products

Nagios Xi

References · 4

• 🔥 https://tenable.com/security/research/tra-2020-61 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-5796 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5796 · Security Note
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/16319 · Telegram Post